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John R. Huizenga

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American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb

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According to Wikipedia, John Robert Huizenga was an American physicist who helped build the first atomic bomb and who also debunked University of Utah scientists' claim of achieving cold fusion. Early life and education John Robert Huizenga was born on a farm near Fulton, Illinois, the son of Henry and Josie Huizenga. He attended Erie High School and Morrison High School, graduating from the latter in 1940. He continued his education at Calvin College in Michigan, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1944. He would maintain his ties to Calvin later in life, for example collaborating on fundamental nuclear research with his Calvin friend Roger Griffioen, who had gone on to become a professor there. Calvin would name him one of the college's Distinguished Alumni in 1975.

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